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Football—the thrill, pageantry, color of it, the
competition, the crowds, the rising surge of school
{spirit as the lemon and green eleven fight back and
forth across the gridiron ... is it possible that all
this will make its comeback next fall after years of
■war-enforced hibernation on the University of Ore
gon campus?
We hope so. We think it can be done if Oregon
men will turn out in full force to show the athletic
board, on whom the decision for or against football
depends, that Oregon has the material and the spirit
to field a team. That is why your newspaper is con
ducting a survey of available manpower this week.
That is why the Emerald is urging all men on the
campus who have some football experience and are
■willing to turn out next fall to fill out the question
naire and turn it in to the Emerald.
These questionnaires, after tabulation, will be
given to Anse Cornell, University athletic manager,
to be used at his discretion. At least, the response
received will give some indication of how interested
Oregon men are in fielding a team and playing in the
Northwest, conference. Otherwise we will he the
only school, except Stanford, which is still maintain
ing its wartime status.
But, as Dr. Earl M. Pallett, University executive
secretary and chairman of the athletic board, point
ed out, we can not allow .our emotions to run away
with us. Naturally, we all want football. We'll all
turn out to watch the games. We'll support the
team as enthusiastically as we supported the basket
ball squad.
There’s more to football than just school spirit
on the part of the student body and the desire of
the students to see the University in the running
with our neighboring schools. There is the matter
of mone}' to pay for equipment, which alone may
amount to $5000. for coaches, equipment, men, med
ical aides, labor fund, etc. The compulsory sale of
athletic cards to all students registering for fall
term, as authorized by the state legislature but not
yet adopted by the University, would help solve
the financial problem. The sale of these cards at,
say, $3 each, would partially eliminate the risk of
losing money on the season and would solve the
overhead bugaboo. Then the athletic board could
save whatever they now have banked for the post
war season when Oregon will be able to skim the
cream of returning athletes and put out a champion
ship team.
"\\ e must realize that most of the other schools
in the conference have navy trainees on the campus
at their disposal. The University will have to rely
on 17-year-olds, 4-F’s, and returned veterans, many
of whom are physically unable to play rugged bajfc~
According to Pallett, the board dropped football
because there were not enough men to continue; it
has been and is the intention of the board to restore
football and a complete athletic program as soon
as the manpower supply warrants such action.
In a brief pre-survey Tuesday it was found that
out of the 39 men in Sherry Ross hall, 10 would
turn out for football; Omega could contribute a't
least two. In a five-minute canvass of the Side,
seven men stated their intentions to play football.
All the men cpiestioned were eager to see the game
back on the campus. Cornell mentioned several men
whom he thought were football material.
The high schools, despite the threat of draft jj^r
18-year-olds, will provide more men. Hank Kuchera,
Eugene high coach, said Tuesday that he had four
men on his varsity team who would make college
ball players. He was fairly certain that two- of
them would attend the University next fall and turn
out for scrimmage. The other two, he said, would
play for Oregon with a little inducement. University
high's Coach Davis said he had two men who were
potential Webfoot grid stars.
We believe it could be done. It's up to the men
to do it.
Oregon
Emerald
ANNE craven
Editor
ANNAMAE WINSHIF
Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
Managing Editor
PATSY MALONEY
Advertising Manager
WINIFRED ROMTVEDT
News Editor
LOUISE MONT AG, PEGGY OVERI AND
Associate Editors
Jane Richardson. Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia
Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris
Yates. City Desk Editors
Bjorg Hansen. Executive Secretary
Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Anita Young,
Co-Women’s Page Editors
Jeanne Simmonds. Assistant Managing Editor
Darrell Boone. Photographer
Shirley Peters, Chief Night Editor
Betty Bennett, Music Editor
Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor
Maryan Howard. Assistant News Editor
Librarians
Jack Craig. World News Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
Anal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
*llie Suntuf, Side . . .
This is keep-your-fingers-erossed week at Oregon. If the
month of Ma\ lives tip to her poetic reputation, there’s nothing
to worry about. Hut May has anything hut a poetic reputation
in this state.
W ith the proper cooperation from the rain gods, Junior
.Weekend will be the highlight of the social year. The Igloo will
bold its own for the Campus Sing and the Junior Prom, hut the
trees on old campus, stately as they may seem, can only be
counted on for shade and atmosphere for the picnic. The parade
is completely on it.sym n.
If very year the worry is the same. No ingenious committee
chairman has thought of a way to avoid it.
I'or lack of any scientific ideas, we can onlv suggest that am
medicine-show or Indian-dancc devices be fullv utilized.
Ganoel. . .
Tlie old millrace is the center of I'niversity life during; spring'
term. Picnics, sunbathing, and canoeing lure students to its
sb ores.
With all its appeal, though, the in ill race is treacherous,
lb 'pitc it.- calm appearance, it- has a swift and dangerous
current Too, it .is polluted and has been condemned for swim
mi ng.
Not too long ago Oregon mourned the loss of several stu
dents who drowned in the race. It has just been long enough
for most of us to forget.
It'.- a good idea to find out how to handle a canoe before
going on that cruise by moonlight. The bridges are verv pic
turesque, but they also provide a neat obstacle course for the
beginner. A little-caution won’t spoil our fun.
‘'It'.- fun to be safe," said !>r. Irma Gene Kevins, director
of accident prevention for the American Red Cross. Washing
ton. ICC., in an assembly at the Pittsburg (Kas.) State Teach
ers college. “Know the rules of safety as well as the rules of
the game and you will have more fun playing.” She was four
teen years head of the department of physical education for
.■women at KSTC.—-(ACP)
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By BETTY BUSHMAN and
JANE ELLSWORTH
Proof Enough
A frosh coed at the University
of Texas wrote the registrar ask
ing permission to live in Scotch
and Rye domitory. The registrar’s
office promptly answered that it
was “plain Scittish Rite, without
bar or soda.”
Si Si Si
Beer With a Head
Here is a bit that the Daily Cali
fornian considers to be the great
est journalistic faux pas of the
week which was in last Wednes
day's San Francisco Chronicle.
Beneath a one-column cut of Fa
ther O'Sullivan, a headline read:
“OLD BEER MUGS NEEDED AS
ARMY MORALE BUILDERS.”
Si Si Si
Shoe, Shoe, Baby
In an effort to still the cries for
action and something different,
the student activities board at the
University of Idaho is sponsoring
a “Stocking Brigade” all campus
dance Friday. The board decided
that “there is nothing quite so con
genial as people relaxing with
their shoes off,” so all shoes are to
be checked at the door.
We Would
A Minnesota Daily columnist had
this gripe to register in last Wed
nesday's paper:
“Of late we have noticed a
stronger tendency for gossip col
umns and the like to query their
readers with nonsensical quota
tions a la the following: ‘What
prominent man was seen with who
what week where?' and Who got
drunk wherefore and why at whose
what-cha-ma-call-it two or three
or four weeks or days ago,’ in
other words, the paragraphs sim
ply are saying, ‘Wouldn't you lik<$
to know what we know?’”
MCDONALD
"I'LL BE
SEEING YOU"
JOSEPH COTTON
GINGER ROGERS
Letters to the Editor "
To the Editor:
And to all those who are to suf
fer as I shall suffer.
For one day now I have been
taking the long way home and also
the wrong way to classes so that
I shall not disturb the little green
blades of grass on Oregon’s cam
pus. Besides being a humanitarian,
I also have a great deal of respect
for the Order of the O. For four
years I have obeyed cheerfully
those things which they have for
bade. I feel that by this time I
have earned their approval and
admiration.
However, today on my way
to class—one hour late because I
took the long way mentioned
above—I chanced to place one foot
upon the green blades which grow
in the parking in front of the Co
op. And I was accosted. Believe
me, Madame Editor, I had no com
punction about stepping on that
blade because I felt that I was
fully within my rights. As I recall,
no announcement has been made
that such a step was illegal. The
rules—as I have been led to be
lieve—apply only to the old cam
pus.
I am not writing this letter be
cause I have any fear about being
dunked. (I learned how to do the
elementary back stroke in swim
ming when I was a freshman). But
I would like to say that, in the
first place, it is illegal, and in the
second'place, the weight of a mor
tar board and gown will likely
drag me to the bottom. Also—it
will probably be a warm day, and I
am sure the Order of the O would
not think of embarrassing my fa
ther and mother by removing that
cap and gown.
I demand a writ of habeas cor
pus.
With sincerest motives to the
Order of the O,
One who is about to be dunked.
“Honey, won’t you-all marry
me?”
“Oh, this is so southern.”
"SUDAN"
MARIA MONTEZ
JON HALL
TURHAN BEY
Dear Sir: *
There she stood, her green and
red wheels obscured by muddy
water. Her motor coughed, sobbed
in agony, and subsided.
“Green Death,” we cried, “here!”'
This pathetic story dates back
to Monday, April 30, when our car,
shepherded by unknown hands,
found her way into the famed Eu
gene graveyard.
We ask you, is that any way to
treat the 17-year-old car that ha^p
carried 12 girls in and about Eu
gene? Is there no justice? Must
we endure this cruel prank in si
lence? No!!
We thank the Sherry Ross men
(or is it boys?) for leaving us our
most necessary gas which un
doubtedly will not be long for this
world since the aforementioned
pranksters sawed off the gas cap
and removed the inner coil. Need
less to say, this is most embarrass
ing when we round a corner. Scrap
ing gas off the streets is no small
feat!
We would thank fhe gentlemen
if they would return our gas coil,
and promise that no evil will befall
them. Never fear, children, we
won’t hurt you. ^
The Bereaved Owners. »
• Lost
LOST: SILVER and black Parker
51 pen last Thursday. Return to
Marilyn Stratton. Phone 2305.
Liberal reward.
r •
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O'ROURKE"
Olivia DeHavilland
Robert Cummings
"WATERLOO
BRIDGE"
Vivian Leigh
Robert Taylor
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